ESL BUSINESS PROGRAM

Unit 1

Work culture and placement

Lesson A

Vocabulary and grammar

Lesson objetives

Vocabulary: Work organization and responsability.

Grammar: Past tenses: simple, continuous and perfect.

Opening discussion

When you start a new job, Do you... -share your ideas and opinions at meetigs inmediately? -try to look smart and professional?

Vocabulary: Company departments

CEO

COO

Project

Purchasing

Manager

Advertising

Co-worker

Marketing

Sales

Logistics

Finance

Vocabulary practice

Drag and drop the concepts next to their corresponding definition.

Creative staff members, including copywriters, artists and graphic designers, provide the written content, images and graphics for the various ads.

Purchasing

This person oversees ongoing business operations within the company, and reports to the CEO, is usually second-in-command.

Finance

This is the division of the company that's responsible for acquiring the goods and services the business requires to operate.

Manager

This is the unit of a business responsible for obtaining and handling any moneis on behalf of the organization.

COO

Advertising

This is a professional who takes a leadership role in an organization and manages a team of employees.

Grammar

Refresh your memory on past tenses

Grammar practice

Past Perfect and Past Simple

Write endings for the sentences below. Use the past simple or the past perfect as appropiate.

Lesson B

lISTENING AND SPEAKING

Lesson objetives

Listening: Company structure.

Reading: Company culture.

Listening

Colin Vickerstaff is a company director. He is speaking to a group of new graduate trainees. Listen and complete the company profile.

• Name: ___________________________
• Established: _______________________
• Main activity: ______________________
• Headquarters: _____________________
• Number of employees: ______________
• Current market share: _______________

Listening

Listen as Colin describes the managment organization of this company. Complete the chart. Drag and drop the words where they go.

Human resources

President

R & D

Sales and marketing

Technical support

Reading

Read the article and find:a) what the monkey experiment demonstrated. b) seven examples of unwritten rules. c) what the new staff learn about work culture and how they learn it.

Reading

Read the article and answer True or False.

Lesson C

WRITING

Lesson objetives

Writing a placement report.

Discuss a report structure.

Discussion

Model writing

Read the extracts from different sections of Henry's report below. Choose the correct heading a-e for each section 1-5.

Writing Activity

Instructions Organize the notes below into the five placement report sections listed in the previous exercise. Then, write a placement report. Remember to use more formal language.

Lesson D

practical case

Lesson objetives

Discussion: Exploring problems.

Developing conselling skills.

Opening discussion

What kind of personal problems can interns and employees experience when working abroad?

Opening discussion

Describe a situation when you helped someone with a problem, or when someone helped you.

Counselling language

Role-play

Read the following problems, take turns to being the problem holder and the counsellor. Use the information given to respond to the counsellor.

Thank you!

Ezequiel Carranza